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“College campuses will still be on my agenda. That’s where the action is.”

He added, “The young people don’t like the debt they are inheriting, the violation of their civil liberties. They don’t like the war and it’s a fertile field. The people up here sort of ignore them.”

During the 2012 GOP presidential primary campaign, Paul said that he visited at least 36 college campuses. He was surprised that the best turnout occurred at the historically liberal bastion, U.C. Berkeley, where 8,500 students attended his event.

“The same week I went to Texas A&M, which is conservative, I got like 4000 [students]. They thought that was good, but we went out to Berkeley and they said that [crowd] wouldn’t have happened in the 60’s,” Paul said with a chuckle.

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Do you ever tire if being an insane, disgusting liar? Ron Paul supporters are conservatives. You and your ilk are socialist-lite like your “electable” boy Romney. IF you are a conservative you should be thanking your stars that there are still principled people out there that won’t sell out their ideals because someone slaps an “R” after their name. If Romney is truly the best the GOP can do, why not vote democrat? WTF is the difference?